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Harry Greene Buenos Aires, Spring 2012

Harry hails from Concord, Massachusetts, and is a junior at the University of Vermont. After studying Spanish in Madrid last spring, he is now spending the semester taking business courses at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella. Harry is also on the USA Modern Pentathlon Team. Pentathlon consists of running, swimming, horseback riding, fencing, and pistol shooting. In Vermont, Harry lives in an environmental co-operative and is all about organic farming and sustainable development. In his free time, he enjoys windsurfing, kayaking, skiing, cooking, and hiking. His adventures follow.

Harry's Posts

• How to be GREEN in Buenos Aires

  8/10/12 • (0)

  Minimizing your carbon footprint is important, no matter where you are on the planet.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires, Spring 2012, Study Abroad, Travel, Video

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  1 week later: nature in Buenos Aires and nature not in Buenos Aires

  8/06/12 • (0)

  I fell asleep to the sound of whitewater, knowing that I was more likely to get robbed by a moose than by a human.

  Today I spent about eight hours on the river (whitewater kayaking, if you didn’t already get that). I hadn’t paddled a boat for about eleven months, but it all came back pretty quickly.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires, Nature, South America, Spring 2012, Study Abroad, Travel

• The freedom of two wheels, two legs, and two lungs; using your own body to get you places.

  6/04/12 • (0)

  I’ve been told that I’m out of my mind for biking in Buenos Aires.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires, Study Abroad, Travel

• Courses in Buenos Aires

  6/01/12 • (0)

  Is it what I should be doing while I’m in Buenos Aires? To be honest, it’s working out pretty well.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires, Study Abroad, Travel

• Biking through Buenos Aires

  5/31/12 • (0)

  I strapped my iPhone onto my helmet, and went on my way.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires, Study Abroad, Travel

• ¡La Cabalgata! Horseback riding in Chilean Patagonia

  5/31/12 • (0)

  Other than the fact that I was an idiot for not shortening my stirrups until halfway through, it was an unforgettable experience. Click play.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires, Study Abroad, Travel

• The east wind, autumn, and seizing the day.

  4/30/12 • (0)

  When I arrived in Buenos Aires at the beginning of February, it was the middle of summer. Literally. A month and a half after their summer solstice, it was hot.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires

• Do YOU like salt? I do. So does Enrique Iglesias, apparently.

  4/22/12 • (0)

  The salar is several square kilometers in area, and several meters deep. How much popcorn could be salted with all of the salt? All of the popcorn ever consumed, ever?

  Argentina, Buenos Aires

• Salt flats, buses, pre-incan ruins, and monkeys. A journey through Bolivia.

  4/20/12 • (0)

  So after almost missing the bus to Jujuy, Argentina from Buenos Aires because I was busy buying bananas, I set out on the 20 hour lift to the north of the country.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires, Jujuy

• Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia

  4/02/12 • (0)

  Before settling down in Buenos Aires, I flew down to the Magallanes region of Chile. I arrived in Puerto Natales, and took a bus up to Parque Nacional Torres del Paine. Paine is the native word for blue.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires

• How free market manifests itself in Argentina, dog poop, and consciously getting over that “bitter taste:” a look back at three weeks ago.

  3/16/12 • (1)

  It highlights “that bitter taste,” an important phase in the study abroad process. The great thing is that I’m over all of it now. The bitter taste came after some two weeks here, and it’s already gone.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires

• Sun’s out guns out and UNICEF: a runner’s recount of road racing in Buenos Aires.

  3/14/12 • (1)

  The race was a fundraiser for UNICEF, which is an NGO that provides humanitarian aid to children and mothers in developing countries…this race was specifically for education. I finished 25th out of 3,768, which was second in my age group, running about 6 min pace.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires

• Pre-Buenos Aires thoughts: IES Abroad round 2

  2/21/12 • (0)

  I decided to do a second semester abroad after the first helped me to grow so much as a person. This video shows my thoughts and feelings prior to departing.

  Argentina, Buenos Aires, Pre-Departure